FAM I LY D E VOT I ON & Activities This week of Advent we will be talking about hope. Most people think of hope as “wishful thinking”. Like when you hope to have a white Christmas. You may be wishing for a bike for Christmas and hope that wish will come true. When our hope is just “wishful thinking”, we don’t feel very sure that it will really happen. That kind of hope is kind of like flipping a coin: sometimes it is heads and sometimes it is tails, but we can’t know for sure. HOPE is so much more than that. Hope is more about WHOM we hope in than WHAT we hope for. The Bible tells us to put our hope in God. You can think of it like gravity. When you throw a ball up, you know it will come down. Hebrews 6:18-19 (NIRV) says, “When God made His promise, He gave His word. He did this so we would have good reason not to give up. Instead, we have to run to take hold of the hope set before us. This hope is set before us in God’s promise. So God made His promise and gave His word. These two things can’t change. He couldn’t lie about them. Our hope is certain. It is something we can hold onto. It is strong and secure.” For generations, people waited in hope for the promises of God to come true. This Advent we can also wait in hope looking back at God’s fulfilled promises and forward to His return one day. 7
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